Cartoon Guide to the Environment

Name: Cartoon Guide to the Environment
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ISBN: 9780062732743

ISBN-10: 0062732749

ISBN-13: 9780062732743

Edition: 1996

Authors: Larry Gonick, Alice Outwater

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Description:

Using a unique blend of comic with scientific fact, this book provides an introduction to the world of environmental literacy. Chemical cycles, life communities, food webs and deforestation, each of these concepts are explained in layman's terms.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.56" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He lives in San Francisco, California.



Acknowledgments



Forests and Water



More Cycles



Evolving Systems, Struggling Individuals



Communities Wet ...



... And Dry



Let's Eat!



From Hunting to Planting



What Limiting Factors?



Bye, Bye, Biome!



Energy Webs



Let's Eat Again!



Bright Lights, Big City



Pollution



Earth Island


Bibliography


Index